I don't think Italian products like Parma Ham or Parmesan are natural, so I don't think it is an appeal to nature. I'm not a paleo moron. I'm just sick of people waiting for tech solutions to things they could do straight away, when the tech solutions end up being worse anyway. I remember when uber and Tesla were going to have self-driving taxis by now and we wouldn't need to buy our own cars. All the money wasted on uber most places would have been better off spending on their existing taxis, public transport and cycling. Now second-hand cars are even more expensive than ever (not ubers fault, to be fair).

I just can't help but feel the same will apply to lab grown meat, and that we'd be better off solving the problem of people eating too much meat by having them eat less meat, rather than delaying the reckoning.

No I mean people should reduce consumption of meat in general by eating more veggies, lentils beans and pulses, rather than lab-grown stuff. It's something we all can do now to make a difference without having to wait for lab-grown stuff, and it will make us all healthier in the long run.

Processed meats and cheeses should be high-quality and infrequent treats, rather than forming the bedrock of every meal.

I can't deny that, and particularly for fresh meat, but I would rather people just age veg and stuff like they are supposed to.

Well I guess we'll have to wait and see if my logical fallacies end up being accurate.

Good. Italian meats and cheeses are too delicious to be threatened by tech crap. I can only imagine lab-grown stuff never being at all a close contender though. It would just harm profit and reduce the amount of good stuff that is produced. It would likely only drive a further wedge between people who get to eat real quality ingredients and people who get to 'indulge' in stuff that is just a simulacra of a burger